saturate vs medicate

saturate and medicate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
saturate	No	No	Yes	No
medicate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, medicate is a hyponym of saturate; that is, medicate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than saturate:

Other hyponyms of saturate include alcoholise, alcoholize, imbue, soak, ammonify, thoriate, stuff, charge, drench, imbrue.

saturate (verb)	medicate (verb)
cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance	treat medicinally, treat with medicine
infuse or fill completely	impregnate with a medicinal substance